Shrinking the Quark Gluon Plasma

Understand

In recent years the understanding on the limits of the smallest possible droplet of the Quark Gluon Plasma has been called into question.

• Experimental results from both the Large Hadron Collider and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have provided hints that the Quark Gluon Plasma may be produced in systems as small as that formed in pPb or dAu collisions.
• Yet alternative explanations still exist from correlations arising from quarks and gluons in a color glass condensate picture.
• In order to resolve these two scenarios, a system size scan has been proposed at the Large Hadron Collider for collisions of ArAr and OO.